4 - Donate to relief efforts

5 - The British Red Cross

Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen marching through the streets of east Aleppo, Syria

It is delivering essential food and medicine to people in desperate need. They are already supporting 1,000 families forced to flee their homes. This includes providing essential food, shelter, water and medical care. Teams are providing medical care and ambulances to transport emergency cases to specialised facilities.

6 - The White Helmets

Its official name is The Syria Civil Defence, but its known as the White Helmets due to their distinctive hard hats, it is a volunteer civil defence non-governmental organisation which works to rescue people from the rubble of destroyed buildings.

Donations to their “hero fund” are used to pay for medical care for injured White Helmets, to help them get back on their feet, as well as supporting families of volunteers killed in action.

7 - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders

Smoke rises following a Syrian government air strike on rebel positions, in eastern Aleppo, Syria

Very few doctors remain in Aleppo but MSF supports eight hospitals in the city. It also runs six medical facilities across northern Syria and supports more than 150 health centres and hospitals across the country, many of them in besieged areas.

8 - Preemptive Love Coalition

This non-profit organisation help address the basic needs of displaced people, such as medical care, shelter, food and water, and, once these are provided, then goes on to help rebuild lives through empowerment grants for those seeking work opportunities and trying to get their children back into education.

9 - Syria Relief

A man cries while holding the body of his son, killed by the Syrian Army, near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria

This charity started out providing medical aid to the people of Syria but has since expanded into food, shelter and education.

Their medical expertise has proved particularly useful in starting a mental health centre, to help treat the deeply traumatising consequences of living in a war zone, as well as a project providing prosthetic limbs to those who have been badly injured.